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Also, rereading Y the Last Man again. I swear it gets better every time.
Inorite?
This is gunna sound crazy but Y was the only book I reread immediately after I finished it.
well, except for 1984, I think
Twitter comes through yet again
Why the hell is this page of this thread causing fanpop.com to try to set cookies?
^ At least half of those are sarcastic it seems.
that's why I said "Twitter comes through yet again".
Oh, that's what you meant.
Who tried posting a Freakazoid picture on this page?
Haven/Bastion
Weird, why can't I see it...
Anyway, new Indie Royale bundle is out! http://www.indieroyale.com/
i can't, either.
Because Haven tried to link to the page rather than the image, thus breaking the image.
interesting fact: haven breaks everything. he's lame like that.
booo haven
My new headcanon: James Patterson is so prolific because some evildoer implanted an explosive device in his head that will detonate if he doesn't publish at a certain rate.
(He's probably just...y'know...greedy...but this is funnier.)
Over 100 books, jesus
Alternate theory: He truly enjoys writing.
Also, he co-writes a lot.
Er, yeah, that's the thing. He isn't really writing anymore. If he really enjoyed it, I feel like he'd focus less on being a book factory and more on actually writing. Here's the key, I read this in an excellent New York Times article within the past few years: When Patterson co-writes, all that means is that he comes up with the ideas and outlines for a story and the co-author actually writes it, carefully imitating his style. I don't see where the craft in that is.
My grandma apparently loves his stuff. I kind of liked his older stuff...started the Alex Cross series back in 2006, I was 16 at the time and I felt so adult for reading Patterson. Actually, that was when I read some Tom Clancy as well. But I was still reading YA stuff too. (That summer was also when I read 1984 for the first time!)
Whatever. I lost all respect for Patterson years ago when he sacrificed an entire book in the Maximum Ride series to preach about global warming in the most blatant way possible, with no relevance to the rest of the series plot. That had been some decent YA stuff, and then that happened. By then I was outgrowing it anyway, though...
Maximum Ride always seemed a bit flimsy to me. Kind of like it was made of tropes smashed together rather than being a cohesive story in its own right. That said, perhaps I was a bit angry at it for being written for my age group in particular. As someone who grew up on Terry Pratchett from a young age, I didn't need a book (nor its genre) talking down to me with its prose or concepts. I guess that always bothered me about YA fiction in general -- it was so obviously geared to a teenage audience that I didn't feel the authors were often being honest about where they really wanted to take the story, or what they wanted to discuss. Even the name "young adult" is a bit of a venomous joke, because the genre clearly isn't meant for young adults aged in their twenties, but adolescents approaching adulthood. The demographic genre is a ploy in itself.
Kids are much more clever than many people give them credit for, and so are teenagers when their thoughts aren't lodged between their legs. I always remember appreciating books that treated me as though I was intelligent and mature, and that's something YA fictions has never done for me.
Same for me really. I think a lot of kids realize this but suck it up because teenage protagonists.
So apparently blackgaze -- black metal + shoegaze -- is a thing now. I'm borrowing a CD from a friend, Alcest's Les Voyages de l'Âme, and he pitched it to me as black metal. For the first few moments I thought it was really milquetoast for black metal, but then I realized it was good easy listening. Definitely a keeper on the iPhone.
EDIT: I was also going to try to finish BBCSEX today, but Bravo is playing The Silence of the Lambs. I figured I might as well check it out. It's actually surprisingly different from the book.
Watched The Grey. Good movie.
Would have been even better if my dad wasn't constantly loudly nitpicking minor details and pointing out really obvious stuff though -_-
I loved The Grey.
as i'm sure most of you remember
My dad did the same thing when i watched it.
i thought you were everest, forzare
not inuh
haven't you heard, all three of us are apparently the same person
or something
^by your powers combined you are captain moderator
Keep in mind, she thinks Bronies are lepers.
shit they know
moderators assemble
Goddammit. There are like seven or more albums I want to get, but PortCon starts in four days.
You can't download a convention.